ANSWER SCRIPTS TO BE POSTED ONLINE AFTER DECLARING RESULTS
The IIT-JEE for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), which has been criticised for not being transparent, will be more open from this year.
For the first time students appearing for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) will get an opportunity to verify their evaluated answer scripts on the JEE website.
The scanned answer sheets will be posted on the website immediately after the results are announced.
Moreover, the ‘key’ containing correct answers to all the questions will be placed on the website within 48 hours of the examination.
Students can lodge objections, if any, on the ‘key’. IIT-JEE officials will verify the objections and make changes accordingly if found to be genuine and release the ‘final key’, which will also be posted online.
This year, IIT-Kanpur is conducting the examination on April 10, across the country, and the results are expected to be announced in the last week of May. Till last year, the results were declared online, but candidates were not shown their answer sheets. Now a student will have access to see his/her answer sheets. A password will be given to each student for the purpose, said Mr S.G. Dhande, director, IIT-Kanpur.
There has been intense pressure on the IITs to make the JEE transparent after there were several irregularities during evaluation of answer scripts in 2006.